Color Grade AI — style skill for color grading & LUTs
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Measures a frame or clip and writes .cube 3D LUTs for DaVinci Resolve and Premiere: fixes, shot matching, presets.
- Type: Style · Color grading & LUTs
- Slug:
color-grade-ai - Status: beta
- Publisher: Isaac Rowntree (community)
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/isaacrowntree/color-grade-ai
- Works in: Claude Code
- Requires: Python 3, Ruby, ffmpeg and ffprobe
- Cost: Free — local
- Adoption: 30 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-10-26)
What it does
Generates .cube 3D LUTs for color correction by measurement rather than by eye: it analyses a frame or a whole clip, detects log versus display-referred Rec.709 footage, fits a correction and emits a ready-to-use LUT, matches one shot to another, and reports color statistics for a region such as skin or a wall. It ships correction LUTs and node-chain building blocks that bake into creative presets, a config-driven preset file, an in-browser preview for live grading, ffmpeg recipes for H.265 masters and web exports, and DaVinci Resolve node-order guidance. Small project (30 stars), so it stays in beta.
Use when
- Fix a color cast or exposure problem with a LUT
- Match one shot's grade to another
- Build a reusable look as a .cube file
Not for
- Grading inside an editor's timeline (it outputs LUTs you apply yourself)
Install
- Claude Code:
git clone https://github.com/isaacrowntree/color-grade-ai.git ~/.claude/skills/color-grade
More color grading & LUTs skills
- Theme Factory: Restyle slides, docs and pages with one of 10 matched color-and-font themes, or generate a new one.
- FLUX 3 Archival Formats: Give FLUX 3 video a period look by naming the recording format and its artifacts, not a mood.
Run the generation on varg
varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs.
- Claude Code:
claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg(skill + hosted MCP) - Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw:
npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y - Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect
https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp - API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt